Summary statement

To date, YPP has surveyed over 49,228 ha of peatland on 131 unique sites. With an estimated total of 95,796 ha of peat units to investigate in our project area, YPP has surveyed 51% of the area so far. Based on previous surveys, YPP estimates that by the time we survey all 95,796 ha, we expect 63,700ha to be actual peaty soils with 46,256 ha classed as deep peat (≥40cm). We estimate that, all peaty soils within our project area have locked away a huge 47,545,025 tonnes of carbon which gives an average of 1,076 tonnes of carbon per hectare - one of the densest terrestrial carbon stores of any habitat!

Erosion feature restoration